Question

Using maven-shade-plugin you can actually merge all dependency jars into single jar file. However I just want to merge several jar files (not all), similary like include-only x, and y, exclude others.

Is there any easiest way to specify only jar file(s) to be included, than to specify all jar files to be excluded?

Answer 1

maven-shade-plugin supports both inclusion and exclusion in its parameter artifactSet – isn’t that working as you require ?

...
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.4</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <phase>package</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>shade</goal>
                    </goals>
                    <configuration>
                        <finalName>${project.artifactId}-shaded</finalName>
                        <artifactSet>
                            <includes>
                                <include>net.sf.buildbox:*</include>
                            </includes>
                        </artifactSet>
                    </configuration>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
...